of >> tonight on huckabee. >> it doesn't matter whether you're black or white or hispanic or asian, or native american, you can make it here in america if you're willing to try. >> three quarters of the hispanic vote, one of the driving forces behind barack obama's reelection. south carolina senator lindsay graham whether the republicans immigration policy cost the g.o.p. on election night and cia director david petraeus suddenly steps down on how the resignation impacts the investigation into the benghazi attacks. >> because of your honor, men

are alive and-- >> we salute our veterans with medal of honor recipient dakota meyer. ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. [applaus [applause] >> thank you, thank you very much. welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city. well, i have a great new recipe i tried out this week for fried crow. i've been eating a lot of that lately. like a lot of conservatives across the land, i really thought mitt romney was going to be elected president. well, i was quite wrong and so were most of the conservative observers and commenttators. so, america has made a choice. now, let's be clear, it was not the choice that i was hoping for, but now what? we did it without bloodshed, bullets, we did it without people with boots and badges dragging us through the streets. of course, now, the hand

wringing begins as republican whine about mitt romney's campaign or mitt romney himself. look, romney won the primary and he earned the right to carry our banner. in his campaign they gave it all they had and i don't agree with those who said that the obama message of bigger government and more taxes won. it was not an election about a message. it was an election about the machinery to get out the votes for president obama. and it was a masterful, methodical effort. now, as i listened to a lot of fellow television and radio talk show hosts or even read the opinion columns of those who excoriated romney, a couple of things occurred to me. if you weren't critical of mitt romney and his campaign the day before the election, then don't be a phony and be critical the day after. also, i noted that the loudest critics were the people who have never once put their own names on a ballot for anything. and since some seem to have a

perfect insight into how to run a campaign and be a candidate, i sure hope they are he' going to give us all the benefit of their expertise and maybe they'll sign up to run next time, oh, yeah, there are lessons to be learned for sure and yes, my party does need to have a more effective outreach to people of colors. those who say republicans can't win the votes of african-american and hispanics are wrong. and i had more than half of the african-american votes when i ran for governor in my state. and it can be done. we need the principles and values and communicate with our hearts and not just our heads and we need to remind people what we're for not just what we're against and we've got to be no longer afraid to take a clear or decisive of stand on principles and issues and mitt romney has my appreciation for giving him fully to the effort. if he said or did things differently than i would have,

so be it. he ran, and won the nomination and deserved my respect and support. you know, i know what it's like to be on the field and actually to be in the game. most of the the critics, never got much closer than the nacho stand and they've watched from the comfort of the sky boxes. look, i love politics, but i will tell you this, i'm glad it's over. you know? (applause) >> and the fact is, there's more to life than just elections. by the way, later in the show tonight i'm going to show you something even more important to me. by the way, i think you'll agree that elections are important and they have consequences, but i'm going to congratulate the president and hope that he will lead as well as he campaigned. that's my view. [applause] well, did republican policy towards immigration cost them the

hispanic vote. i spoke to south carolina senator lindsey graham early about that. >> george w. bush received 44% of the hispanic vote in 2004. president bush 43 understood the hispanic community, a great governor of texas and hispanics felt really good about president bush. why? because most of them are pro-life like me and you, mike. entrepreneurial, join the military and incredibly patriotic on hard working people. in 2004, what happened between 2004 and 2008. we tried under president bush's leadership to pass comprehensive immigration reform in 2006 and 2007, during that debate emotional issue some rhetoric coming from different corners of our party alienated the hispanic community we need to secure our border and build walls and fences where appropriate, but during 6 and 7 we built a wall

between the republican party and hispanic community and in 2012, that wall got higher because we got 27% of the vote in 2012. we're going the wrong way and now, i'm convinced, it's based on rhetoric and tone, coming out of certain elements of the republican party during the debate. >> a lot of republicans get nervous when we talk about comprehensive immigration reform and that's just a blanket amnesty policy. that's really not it. describe what. >> no, it's not. >> what comprehenve immigration reform would look like? >> there's no way to solve the immigration problem until you secure our borders, do you agree with that? >> i absolutely do. that has to be the beginning, because no matter what you do, if you can walk across the street into america, we're going to be flooded with illegal immigrants for years. so, get that border secured and before i would do anything else, i would wants it to be

certified to be secured by people who live along the border, border state governors working with the department of homeland security where they tell us, we've done everything within our power, within reason to secure the border. after that, we've got to deal with why people come, mike, why do we have 12 million illegal immigrants, what do they come here to do? >> i tell people all the time, senator, people come here for the same reasons that our a ancestors did, i feel good living in a country that people try to break into rather than break out of. we need the perspective here. >> they come here to work, this is the place where everybody would love to come because we're america and they come here for jobs. they live in poor, corrupt countries to the south of our border. now why we're not being overrun by canadians? canadians come to myrtle beach in march and they go swimming and we're glad to have them and i don't know why they go swimming in march, but they leave. they spend a lot of money, they've got a stable,

noncorrupt government. they're our friends, but they don't feel the need to come to america to get a job. the people in the south live in terrible conditions. they come here to get a job. once you secure your border you've got to find out a way to make sure you're not hiring illegal immigrants and give your employer community verifiable documents so they'll know the difference between somebody who is legal and illegal. you need employer verification to control hiring in in countries and that's the magnet. so, we have a social security card. do you have one, mike? i've the got one. >> i better have one. (laughter) >> do like ronald reagan? do you like ronald reagan? >> of course i do. >> i'll make you ronald reagan by you, and i can go in anderson, south carolina and get a social security saying you're ronald reagan. if you're an employer and a hispanic person comes to you with a card that says i'm ronald reagan, you say you don't look like ronald reagan, you can get sued. so what i want to do is have documents that can be verified for employment. i think we should all turn our

social security card into a biometric document that can't be faked and you go back to roger ailes to renew your contract, you need to pay mike more. >> say that one more time. >> roger ailes, mike huckabee knocks it out the park on saturday night. >> there you go, there you go. >> when you go back to negotiate with roger, you have a document that fox news can prove quickly that you're mike huckabee. if you did that one thing along with securing the border, it would be harder than heck to hire an illegal immigrant. and if they do, they should lose their business and go to jail. >> it sounds reasonable, there will be people in the republican party if there's something whatsoever that does not severely punish people who are here, senator, that's been the challenge, and paid a huge political price for supporting the idea that the children of

illegal immigrants should still be treated with respect and dignity, you know? that just was not an acceptable position to take, but i've never understood why would we punish the children for something the parents did? so, it's a tough issue. how do we get through that in the republican party? >> okay. find an american solution to an american problem. the worst thing we could do as republicans is try to use immigration reform to create a political advantage with hispanics. we should create an american solution to american problem and fix our immigration system for all americans, it's a national security problem, it's an economic problem, it's a social problem and the reason i didn't talk about the 12 million is i wanted you to say what you did first. it was not lost upon me. i've got the heck beat out of me in 2006 and 7 trying to solve a hard problem.

that's okay. when you ran for president, you took the high road, the 12 million what to do about them. some should leave because they're not adding value to our country, they've broken the law outside of the legal immigration, and they should be deported as soon as possible, but there are millions of people who have been here for a very long time and once we secure our border and get verifiable documents in place we should turn to the folks and say, the only crimes you've committed is to come here illegally. you've kept your nose clean and you're hard working and come out of the shadows we're going to biometrically identify you, and we're going to give you a card. you're going to pass taxes and you can't stay here unless you pass english pro ficiency exams and you can never break the law by getting in the line. you've got to get in the back of the line. and you have to earn the right to citizenship and you can't

jump in front of people who are doing it right. i think that's right for america and not just the hispanic community and mike, i'll say one thing about you. when it comes to talking about pro-life issues you're my mentor and my model. you do not have to change anything about being conservative. this election was close. we lost because we're underperforming with a group of people who are natural fit for the republican party. we ran hispanics away and we're going to get them back by being socially and fiscally conservative. african-american, my friend, support traditional marriage higher than any group in the unt can you don't have to change fiscal or social conservativism we've just got to talk differently when we're talking-- we've got to talk like mike huckabee, when you were governor you did very well with african-americans because they knew you were fair so i look forward to rebranding the the republican party in a way that we can appeal to a wider group of people and here is the good news, conservativism is an asset not a liability.

>> couldn't agree more. senator, thank you and your kind words are deeply appreciated. thanks so much. [applaus [applause] >> general david petraeus was supposed to testify on capitol hill about the benghazi attack that killed four americans. that was before friday. how does this impact the hearings? i'll ask congresswoman sue mey myrick when we come back: my doctor told me calcium

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questioned and resigned on friday citing an extramarital affair and representative sue myrick is a member of the intelligence committee and they're going to be holding a closed hearing and thank you for being here on what has been a remarkable turn of events just in the the last several hours. you i want to begin with the resignation by general petraeus. he was supposed to be questioned by your committee. will he show up, will he come voluntarily or be subpoenaed? >> i can't answer that today. but we have the ability to subpoena people. noi there's a lot of concern about his testimony and the fact that he does have answers to some of the questions. there are so many unanswered questions out there. so, we'll be looking at that as we get back into session next week. the hearing is not until thursday, i can tell you

another committee chairman spoke up and said that he was going to subpoena him and i would suppose that may happen with other people as well. but you know, mike, there are so many unanswered questions and there's so much confusion regarding this. the american people have a right to know what happened and the families who lost their loved ones have a right to know what happened. >> general petraeus had such a-- i don't want to take anything away from the extraordinary service he's given to this country, but i do know that a number of members of congress were very unhappy with his earlier tomorrow to the committees, still at that time claiming that it was a flash mob in benghazi the cause of the trouble. and the people disappointed in his earlier testimony, now that we know that that is not at all what happened and everyone knew it wasn't what happened. >> well, the series of information that we were receiving was frustrating. you know, from the very beginning. i mean, five days afterwards, the libyan president came out

and said it was a pre-meditated pre-planned terrorist attack on the united states and the video situation was just not true. and you know, then after that, that was at the same time, by the way shall the u.n. ambassador, susan rice was out there telling cbs that you know, they didn't have enough information to know. and so, since then there have been leaked state department cables and e-mails that show within hours after the attack, the administration knew that ansar al sharia, a militant group claimed responsibility. all of that was not mentioned so there are just so many questions to be asked and many people who know things that they need to tell us. you know, the intelligence committee is able to get information that other committees don't have access to. so, the administration has to be straight up with us. they don't have an excuse for trying not to tell us the truth. >> mike: you mentioned hillary

clinton, secretary of state. do you expect she would be called to testify and would you expect her to do so. >> she may be called by another committee. technically her department is not under our jurisdiction in the intelligence community. we're the intelligence community strictly, but i assume that other committees may call her. as to what she will do, i don't know. again, you can subpoena people. this is just an unfortunate situation that we're looking at right now. the timing of the resignation is very curious and we've got to get to the bottom of all of it, find out the truth of what really happened. again, because the american people deserve to know. >> mike: a lot of people have said just what you did, that the timing of the resignation was curious. others have said it was questionable. and a number of military analysts and intelligence analysts questioned the fact it happened just after the election, just before the hearings. what do you read into that? or do you read anything into it? >> well, mike, i don't care to speculate.

i will ask those questions in the hearing on thursday, and hopefully we'll get the answers because i, like everyone else, would like to know. >> mike: one final question, congresswoman, this administration has been reluctant to call terrorism, terrorism. whether it's benghazi, fort hood, the shooting of the soldier in little rock. they just don't want to say it's terrorism that islamic jihadists are alive and well and doing damage. >> you know, when osama bin laden was killed there was no more problem, al-qaeda was gone, we didn't have a problem and so they have refused to admit that they still exist and you know, governor, as well as i do, that they are out theren, they are literally, anything they can do to destroy us in the united states they will do and you and i have discussed before just the fact who is in our country and what can happen. look how many terrorist attacks we've had domestically in the last what, 18 months? you know, this isn't over and this isn't ended and for anybody to try and sweep it

under the rug is absolutely ridiculous, the truth has to be told. >> well, i'm glad you're on that committee and i hope you will continue to probe for the the truth. >> thank you so much for being with us today. >> you're welcome. [applause]. the house hearings are going to begin on thursday, november the 15th. and by the way, also the date of the highly anticipated debut of a brand new musical scandalous written by kathie lee gifford, nothing to do with washington, believe it or not and kathie lee will join us next in the studio to talk about it. 4g lte is the fastest.

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>> >> she has been an endearing and enduring face on our television sets for the past

three decades and also an accomplished singer and actress and her latest project is a musical and she wrote it, about the evangelist, amy peerson. scandalous on broadway next week. will you please welcome back to the show, kathie lee gifford. [applause] >> hello, governor. >> hi, kathie lee. >> so nice to see you. >> great to see you. >> wow, you're always doing something and now a broadway play that you've written. >> yeah, i know. >> about a very interesting character. >> a real woman of history, all fallen through the cracks of history and it's wrong because her story is unbelievable. people say, well, if she was such an unbelievable woman why haven't i heard of her. >> mike: why haven't we heard of her. >> ♪ hello to hollywood, everyone from shirley temple to amy

stempel ♪ i've been fascinated for 40 years. >> mike: what made you interested in her? she's fascinating. >> and i first heard of her 40 years ago in college nobody could have ever lived a life like that. and then when i moved to los angeles to pursue my own career she's legendary out there. the temple she built in 1923 is still there. >> mike: i've been there. eighths dream center. >> dream center taking care of 30,000 a week in the worst section of los angeles. >> mike: amazing place. >> amazing, amy in a nutshell was a 17-year-old atheist, storm girl from canada who ended up beening in the 1920's the most celebrated, most controversial woman of her generation, but she saved one and a half million people from starving to death and sold more war bonds than any movie stars, she baptist advertised marilyn monroe as a baby, and anthony quinn played saxophone in her band.

and people think that the bible is dull are people who have never read the bible. >> mike: very good. >> she said if i put on the pageants in church it's going to be like the old house wives of the old testament. you want crazy stories, you want intrigue and drama and sex and violence and love and romance and despair, read the bible. so, in a nutshell it was the hottest ticket in hollywood, but she disappeared, governor, i think now the story. she disappeared in 1926, swimming off the coast of santa monica area. and they thought she had drown only to reemerge five weeks later claiming she had been kidnapped and held for ransom. the district attorney at the time said no you weren't you were shacked up with your lover up in caramel. and the the musical the eve before the verdict is about to be read and she takes that opportunity to tell her life story in hopes that people will understand that none of our lives should be defined by

one experience, but the whole, you know, it's our whole life that defines it, from what we leave behind is what will be remembered. >> mike: i love stories that are true because they're intriguing and sometimes the truth is more entertaining as well as-- >> you can't write this stuff. can't make it up is what i mean. >> kathie lee you never cease to amaze me, you do a daily television show, raise a family and all the other projects have and squeeze in just writing a little broadway play that, i think, is going to be a great hit. >> i hope you come, governor. >> i'm going to come, going to see it. >> af got a book tour, first. >> mike: scandalous is still going to be running. i predict a long run. >> who did you predict for the election? (laughter) >> kathie lee, it's so good to see you. >> it's a pleasure to see you, governor. thank you so much, thank you,

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>> live from america's news headquarters, i'm harris falkner. the scandal surrounding the head of the cia general david petraeus breaking wide open on this sunday. he quit suddenly on friday he said because of an extramarital affair and now we know that fbi agents were looking at e-mails on his computer as part of a wide investigation and they were tipped off by a petraeus family friends jill kelly. here these second from the right right next to the wife, holly, of david petraeus. kelly went to the feds after receiving threatening e-mails supposedly from the woman who was involved with petraeus.

her name is paula broadwell. she is he' pictured here on the right. broadwell wrote a book about petraeus called "all in", and just part of the story as lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle question the timing of the resignation just days before petraeus was set to testify on benghazi. now, back to huckabee. >> (applause) > >> with the fiscal cliff approaching, the president with the problems in front of what the white house called middle class americans. let's kick off the notable and quotable comments of the week, with one of his remarks from that event. >> i want to be clear, i'm not wedded to every detailed plan i'm open to compromise. i'm open to new ideas. i'm committed to solving our fiscal challenges. but i refuse to accept any

approach that isn't balanced. >> mike: okay, let me just translate a couple of things for you. (laughter) when a democrat uses the term balanced, he means taxes, and when a democrat uses the term investment, he means spending. so, the president says we need to have investments, that means we need to spend more money. we don't have any money. we're going to maybe make some investments and when he says we need to do it with a balanced approach, just remember, that means his-- it is a gut punch to the taxpayers. now, i understand where the president thinks he's coming from retorically, it sounds so good to people who are making maybe 50,000 you're not going to be touched, but by golly those making more than you, we're going after them. most americans don't want to hurt other americans, they want to help every americans. the fact is, if you're hurting the americans who are making

more than 250,000, i don't know where the president went to school to get his math. $250,000 is $750,000 away from being a millionaire just so we get clear on that. [applause] here is the problem if those people making that amount are going to pay more to the government, guess who they can't pay it to, to you. that's right, to you. if you're one of their employees, it means you don't get a boinus, you don't get a pay raise, get to keep your job. this is why i hope the president is sincere when he tells he's not married to any of his opinions and then he tells those opinions he's married to. they need to have a divorce because america needs real solutions. now that the president won a second term in the white house, he may have faced with replacing some members of his cabinet. asked if he's going to stay around, attorney general eric holder had this to say.

>> that's something i'm in the process now of trying to determine. do i think that there are things that i still love to do, do i have left some, you know, gas left in the tank? it's an interesting and tough four years so really, i just really don't know. >> mr. holder, let me help you out. (laughter) >> we're done with you. we're finished, we're fine if you need to leave. [applause] >> we feel like the manner in which you've handled things, fast and furious and black panther issues in the elections a couple of years ago, the manner in which you continue to hide behind executive privilege and not answer questions from the members of congress who had a legitimate reason to ask you. maybe you don't realize it, but we think the tank is empty, the gas is gone and we hope you have a wonderful next year, we hope it's soon. and well, the devastation from hurricane sandy was amplified

this week by a nor'easter which hit the same areas that saw a lot of destruction from hurricane sandy. there are still many people without power and many areas hit hard, places like staten island. >> the first couple of days we were okay and then the looting started, one house and another, and the anger started to boil and a lot of tension and stress and reality of what's happening start today hit home that we're on our own. >> we lost everything, i can't talk i'm so nervous. we don't have medication, we don't have food. and we need everything, actually. >> as a governor who dealt with crisis like ice storms. >> tornados, floods. the aftermath of katrina in which our state saw 75,000 evacuees come with nothing, i hoped and prayed we'd never see anything like that again ever and now we are. and frankly, i'm furious about

it. there's no excuse for americans to be that away from a bottle of water, a sandwich and warm place to sleep and somebody giving them basic answers why there's no help. i hope if you haven't already made some effort to help these folks, you will maybe through the red cross, red cross.org a place you can go to help, but i hope you'll also raise with people in staten island and let them know it's unacceptable for a government we pay so much for, for people who need so much at a time likes this. it's unexcusable that in this country, people are waiting to get a simple answer, or something warm around their necks or a bottle of water. coming up we celebrate memorial day with a real hero, dakota meyer will be joining us next. [applause]

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war. president barack obama spoke about his heroism during the ceremony to present him with the medal of honor last year. >> men were being wounded and killed and four of dakota's friends were surrounded. four times dakota and juan asked to go in and it was too dangerous, they were defying orders, but doing what they thought was right. so they drove into a killing zone. dakotas head and upper body expose today machine guns, mortars and rocket propelled grenades. coming across injured afghan soldiers, dakota loaded them into the hum-vee. they drove those wounded back to safety and those who were there called it the most intense combat they'd ever seen, dakota and juan would have been forgiven for not

going back in, but as dakota says, you don't leave anybody behind. >> his four american friends were killed that day. a . a fifth man, army sergeant first class kenneth west dment brook diedlators from his wounds. dakota risked his life to make sure their bodies were returned home and helped with 36 of other men and tells the story in the book, "into the fire", joining me now from his home in kentucky, dakota meyer. [applause] >> it's an honor to have you on the show this veterans day weekend. >> thank you. >> mike: well, thank you so much for being here and i can't tell you what, what honor we all feel just being able to visit with you, and to thank you for what you did for america, and especially for your fellow marines. i want you to tell me what did

you feel when you found out you were going to receive the medal of honor. >> you know, i was actually north of my hometown of kentucky and working for a construction company. my cousin, and the president had called and i tried to avoid his call because this is not something i wanted, i don't feel like i deserve the medal of honor and you know, definitely, like i said, something i wanted, but what the president said to me, it's bigger than me and i realize that now and it is, it's about how the guys are remembered that day and how the military is remembered and if it gives me a platform to go out and make a difference i'll accept it on behalf of all them. >> mike: you were actually told to stand down, not to go into this fire fight and do what you did, which ultimately resulted in the saving of 36 lives. you know, defy an order but to do it because you saw her people in danger and put

yourself in danger for it. i'm curious, were you ever reprimanded for the fact that you defied an order to go and do what you did that earned you this recognition? >> no, i wasn't. i get asked that a lot, actually, governor, but you know, we are taught in the military obedience of orders and one of most important things. i can tell you stronger than the obedience order is brotherhood. we were told numerous times there, but you know the brotherhood never to leave a fallen man behind is etched in our hearts and morals and that's what we stick with and go back it in a situation like that. >> mike: a lot of veterans come back and have a hard time adjusting to civilian life after they've seen what folks like you have seen. what can we do to better help our veterans? because we owe it to them, we owe it to them. what can we do as a country? >> you know, i think we have to come in and i felt like, and ill he speak on my

experience, i did a lot in my book "into the fire." but i got back and tried to live independently and there's no way to live. none of us do that, all of us rely on a support system. what happens we get out and i don't know why, but seems like sometimes americans don't understand how veterans are or the military lingo, whatever else. so definitely i think we need to step in and to do what makes america great, we need to stand next to each other and be near each other for hard times. the same thing with vet advance, we have to get them and integrate them and care for them and bring them back into he society and let them know we're there. i think there are a couple of keys, number one, give nemthem job. they have 've sacrificed so muc give them a job and how much we appreciate them. we've got to let these guys know.

[applause] >> thank you. we've got to let these guys know how much we appreciate their sacrifices going over there and how can we do that? thank them. and go out and live our lives the best that we can every single day and take advantage of our freedom and just know, you know, whether we're okay with what happened in the election or not. it's over with, the election is final and let's go upon and no matter what, why we're the greatest country on the face of the earth. because we are. >> mike: we certainly are and because of outstanding people like you, dakota, god bless you, and thank you. sergeant dakota meyer. >> thank you so much. >> mike: the book "into the fire." we want to thank all the veterans that served so self-leslie so that we could be friday. let me say i'll be in austin, texas with my friends gatlin brothers with a spanish decial and i said there's more to

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and it's not just that their little hams, so is their grandfather. i wanted to bring them on the show not just because it's a shameless way for me to promote my grandchildren, of course it is, i have a new book that comes out this week and it's called "dear chandler, dear scarlet and it's a back, really, all about my writing letters to my grandkids. now, now, i'm probably thinking right now you're sitting there thinking what do you mean writing a letter, these kids aren't old enough to understand it, that's precisely the point by the time they can understand it i may be too old to write it. here is what i want to be able to do is to say things to those kids that hopefully will help them to know who they are by knowing who and where they come from. have you wondered what you're leaving your kids? . fact this election season has been a tough one and a lot of times maybe we think the most

important thing in all the world going to get elected, but the most important thing is what kind of life you're giving and imparting and training your children and yes, your grandchildren, to have and to be. if i left my grand kids old guitars, ai'm not sure that would mean a lot to them. i want to leave them not just an air loom heirloom that's physicalment, but where they've been, by the way, we're tuning up the huckabee tour bus and we call it the huck-a-bus. and we're going to be on the road for a few weeks and can't guarantee that scarlet and chandler will be with us, but i'll be starting in kansas and maybe visiting your town very soon. if you go to mikehuckabee.com.

you can click on the dear chandler and dear scarlet link and find out exactly where we're going to be, and i'm going to have to work on you, i'm doing great with chandler. (laughter) (applaus (applause) >> and by the way, i'm assuming you knew this is my wife janet and the grandmother of my grandchildren. (laughter) >> you know what it was, it was the applause, that's what scarlet needed. you can tell. by the way tell you this everyone in the the studio audience today is going to get a signed copy of the book, "dear chandler, dear scarlet" and you will also be getting a copy of "a simple christmas" a book now out in paper back, a combination of both of these, but i hope you'll read the book and enjoy it i'm confident you will, chandler thinks you will, he's clapping now. can you say please to meet you?

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